In past postings I reported on what appears to be the average number of magnitude 6.5 or greater earthquakes that hit the Pacific Ring of Fire.
In going through the USGS’s Significant Earthquakes of the World, all the way back to 1999, it seems the Pacific Ring of Fire has about 50 per year.
The Pacific […] Continue Reading…
Bruce Bartlett, former Reagan and Bush Sr official, has published a new book called The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform – Why We Need It and What It Will Take. But guess what? He says the wealthy have been getting huge tax cuts for decades, and that’s part of what put the federal government […] Continue Reading…
Argentine Foreign Minister, Hector Timerman, demanded that the United Kingdom “…refrain from this military escalation that they are carrying out in the South Atlantic with the introduction of the latest generation of warships and warplanes, and dispatching a nuclear submarine with the capacity to unload nuclear weapons.”
While some British officials say the sending of Royal […] Continue Reading…
“In the nuclear field, major achievements have been made by the Iranian nation in recent years. Today, not only has this nation become nuclear, but it has also succeeded in meeting a large portion of its needs in this field.”-Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
On February 11, 2012, the Iranian President not only praised the nuclear […] Continue Reading…
Almost reminiscent of the British killer cops who started riots in poor London suburbs by killing an unarmed father, white New York City cops intentionally stalked a poor black man, and it was caught on video.
Ramarley Graham, 18, died last Thursday after NYPD broke into his grandmother’s home, went upstairs and held his grandmother […] Continue Reading…
The following statements are from Artur Manfred Max-Neef, a Chilean economist, who began teaching economics in the 1960s at Berkeley in California.
“This economy is crazy and poisonous. I am an economist, and I have been fighting against the economy that is taught the way it is being taught and being practiced. I have been […] Continue Reading…
The Japanese National Police Agency have released the latest numbers regarding people leaving the disaster hit areas of Miyagi, Iwate, and Fukushima prefectures.
At this point more than 150,000 people have left the Tohoku region (where the affected prefectures are). Just a few weeks ago, in January, is was reported that 31,381 people left Fukushima […] Continue Reading…
“…if an ordinary submarine can sit in the Persian Gulf’s bed it would be the worst threat to the enemy. That is one of the U.S. concerns since Iranian submarines are noiseless and can easily evade detection as they are equipped with the sonar evading technology…When the submarine sits on the seabed it can […] Continue Reading…
Russian media claim a Chinese newspaper has published an article that says Iran is sending 15,000 troops to Syria.
The Russians asked several Iranian university and media officials about this: “As far as I know there is not and will not be any program to dispatch Iranian military troops to Syria.”- Reza Moghadasi, Mehr News
“Iran has […] Continue Reading…
Belgium went more than a year without a government, 2010-2011, and there was little civil strife. Now that Belgium has a government almost everyone is striking, including firefighters.
Firefighters went on strike because the new government wants to destroy their retirement program. Riot police were called out, but the firefighters had planned ahead. On February […] Continue Reading…